<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Have tried F11 hard disk based installation unsuccessfully on my X31 for the 5th day. After choosing grub at boot (Windows XP is still functional) the insatallation hangs at </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>firewire_core: created device fw0...</DIV> <DIV>clocksource tsc unstable (delta=-255137765 ns)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Have tried to add to the kernel line in menu.lst either "highres=off ohz=off irqpoll", or "clocksource=hpet", "clocksource=acpi_pm", or "clocksource=jiffies", or "acpi=off", etc. to no avail. vmlinuz0, init.</DIV> <DIV>I wonder if you can please help. Cheers.</DIV></div><br> </body></html>